Quotes About Competition

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

We are killing - absolutely killing our energy business in America.

I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.

I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

Show business got really tainted for me.

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

Take care of your customers, and you will have a successful business. Don't, and you won't. The airlines need to figure this out - soon.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

Modeling is a lonely business.

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.